English translation of C.K. Char-Changer ---------------------------------------- Prof. Knibble 09. 07. 1988 ******************************************** Hello, you noble guys of Rockford's graciousness! The title of this message is: Everything clear??!! I hope that, after a careful study of my holy words, really everything will be clear. Okay, let's start: ================== On this disk you can find two programs: 1) B.D. Char to CK 2A) B.D. Enemie Design V1.2 2B) B.D. Enemie Design V1.2H Let's start with Enemie D. V1.2. That's that well-known program to render the characters and game elements in Bboouullddeerrddaasshh, written by No One. The chars, which you can load with this, are loaded from $2800. However, now Prof. Knibble has written an editor called 'Knibbleditor' in which the two kinds of chars (namely capital letters and enemies) are processed separately. By this you can acquire a greater flexibility in combining them both. The capital letters lay in memory from $2800, the enemies from $2BB0. Because both are loaded in Enemie-Designer at the same time, you also need to lay in memory from $2800. In this way, you can only load the Enemie-Chars, which Prof. Knibble uses, with a greater effort in the Enemie-Designer. And that, while the capital letters can't be changed there at all. For that reason, now there is version v1.2H, which loads Prof. Knibble's chars at the right addresses, namely $2BB0. Prof. Knibble's chars can be recognised by the 'C.' at the beginning. These chars have been tested thoroughly and guarantee an animation without flaws. Now we come to the second program. 'B.D. Char to CH' is a new technically outstanding program by Prof. Knibble. (Feel free to open the windows, it's no winter yet.) Jeff Schneider, the programmer of the construction kits, would irritate us all, because he has filed the chars differently there from the game (although he could not know at that moment that there could ever be other chars). Thus, it was impossible until now to load the chars, which have been created with Enemie Designer, in the CK. Until now!!!!! For now there is Char to CK. Instruction: ============ 1. Load B.D. Char to CK and start it. 2. How you will answer the question about $2800 or $2BB0 has now, hopefully, become clear to you. 3. Put in the names of the chars that should be loaded. 4. After the char has been loaded, it is converted and saved on the same disk with the same name, with the extension '.ck'. For this, there must be 19 free blocks per converted char. There is no possibility to change disks! (Pure laziness of me, but I've got all chars on one disk.) 5. By pressing the key you can go to the beginning of the program again to convert the next chars. 6. After you, with pain in your heart, have banished this excellent program from computer by means of a reset, load the CK and start it. Now a reset follows and then the loading of the converted chars with ,8,1. If you now type in , you can delight yourself with a CH, which every Enemie character set must swallow. That is needed for building new caves and animating intermissions, isn't it? 7. If there is anyone who has created a good char, he or she should send it to Prof. Knibble. In the next opportunity it will be built in in a new game!!!! Finally some whistle-blowing, that there soon (in about two months) will be a completely new Boulderdash feeling, as there is being thought industriously in Prof. Knibble's programming kitchen. For this project I can still use new caves and intermissions. So switch on your creativity and there it goes. As a final ending, here the greetings in alphabetical order: ------------------------------------------------------------ Boulderdan B Boulderwilli Dieter H. O Eve (SWS) HSG. Denzlingen U Lord Diego Michingo L Mr. D.B. Mr. K.F. D Mr. K.K. Mr. M.S. E Mr. Nobody Mr. Spy R Mr. Stack No One - Pes P.E.T.E. D Phoenix Posocopi A Sandy The Blockheads S The ByteCruncher The Impossible Duo H Waldwatz Waldwatz Wipe Witro X-Ray-7 And all other boys and girls all around the world, who like to play (Boulder Dash). ------------------------------------------------------------ Martijn's Boulder Dash Fan Site http://www.bd-fans.com